Section I. Historical Sketches.
- Contents of Section 1
- Definition of landscape gardening
- The beautiful as the aim of landscape gardening
- The embellishment of nature
- Large landed estates
- Small cottage residences
- Development of landscape gardening art
- William Shenstone invention of landscape gardening
- Ancient and modern styles of garden design
- Hanging gardens of Babylon
- Greek and Persian gardens
- Italian gardens and marbles
- Old French gardens
- Gardens of Versailles
- French garden style in other European countries
- Dutch garden design
- Modern landscape gardening in England
- Henry the Eigths garden at Nonsuch Palace
- English Elizabethan gardens
- James I and Stuart gardens
- Lord Francis Bacon on garden design
- Gardening during Cromwell's Commonwealth
- Gardening under Charles II and the Stuarts
- William and Mary gardening
- Inventory of a virtuoso gardener
- Absurdities of the ancient style of gardening
- Tudor parks
- Addison and the modern style of gardening
- Poetry and gardening
- Addison, Pope and the revolution in gardening taste
- Alexander Popes garden at Twickenham
- Horace Walpole and William Kent
- William Shenstone ornamental farm at The Leasowes
- Lancelot Capability Brown
- On the Picturesque by Sir Uvedale Price
- Chinese taste in gardening
- Humphry Repton and landscape architecture
- John Claudius Loudon as a gardening author
- Modern English gardening at Blenheim and Chatsworth
- Modern gardening in continental Europe
- Country estates in the United States of America
- Country life in America
- Gardening literature in North America
- Andre and Joseph-Julien Parmentier
- William Hamilton Country Seat at Woodlands, Philadelphia
- Country Seat of Judge Peters, Philadelphia
- Lemon Hill Garden, Fairmount Philadelphia
- Clermont Garden of Chancellor Livingston
- Waltham House Landscape Garden, Boston
- Hudson Valley Estates and Gardens
- Villa residences
- Hyde Park, Hudson River, New York
- Manor of Livingston, Hyde Park, New York
- Blithewood, Country Seat Robert Donaldson
- Montgomery Place the residence of Mrs. Edward Livingston
- Ellerslie Country Seat William Kelly,
- Country Seat Gardiner Howland, New Hamburgh
- Kenwood Residence, Joel Rathbone, Albany
- Van Rensselaer Manor, Bath, Albany
- Washington Irving Cottage at Tarrytown
- John Hunter's Island at Pelham, New York
- Cottage residence of William H. Aspinwall, Staten Island
- Wadsworth family seat at Geneseo
- Monte Video, Daniel Wadsworth, Hartford, Connecticut
- Rural Boston cottages and villas
- J. P. Cushing, Belmont Place, Boston
- Brookline, Boston
- Pine Bark, Perkins, Jamaica Lake, Boston Pond
- Thomas Lee, Jamaica Lake, Boston Pond
- Brookline landscape gardens
- New Bedford Residences, Massachusetts
- Bordentown, New Jersey cottages
- Country Seats, Delaware and Schuylkill, Philadelphia
- Philadelphia picturesque cottage residences
- Picturesque Stanton, Germantown, Philadelphia
- Delaware Villa, Philadelphia
- Small suburban villa residences
- Modern Landscape Gardening in North America
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